A very interesting interview with Professor Maryanne Wolf. Professor Wolf, who is the Director at the Centre for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University. She has a child with dyslexia and has devoted her life’s work to understanding how the brain learns to read, how best to teach children to do so and why reading is challenging for some.
According to Professor Wolf, humans are not born with the ability to read and that our brain has to rewire itself to be able to do so.
"This exuberant interview of Dr Maryanne Wolf contains a lot of very important messages about the reading brain, especially dyslexia. It went out over an Australian network but is equally relevant to England. Despite some minor quibbles, e.g. the brain cannot be ‘rewired ‘- that is a media headline – I think it would be very useful to draw it to the attention of teachers on training events. It speaks in a language they understand about the difficult concept of ‘brain plasticity’." ~ Sir Jim Rose
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